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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles. See "Published Works" on the web version for citations.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Weekend Data Dump

Here are some stories that I didn't get around to blogging, but which are interesting to me.

A top Hillary Clinton aide thinks there are people in this country who have bastardized their religion which features backwards gender relations and whose members don't appreciate democracy. What a raging Islamophobe--wait, what? The aide was talking about Catholics? Well, move along. Nothing to see.

The fall of Mosul won't actually "turn the tide" against ISIL in the battle for Iraq--that happened last year with the recapture of Ramadi. But it will signal a step down the escalation ladder to insurgency/terrorism for the Iraq branch of the caliphate. Likewise, the capture of Aleppo by Assad's forces will require the rebels in that region of Syria to revert to insurgency tactics rather than holding territory. We'll see how the Iraqis and Assad's allied forces handle that job.

Yes, Trump is a clown and quite likely a louse who I would never want near any female in my family. He would be an awful president. I've always thought that. Despite that, I still might have to vote for him if it looks like my failure to vote for him could contribute to a Hillary Clinton win (although a Clinton win looks increasingly likely every day). Because Clinton would be a damaging president with few restraints placed on how much damage she could do to rule of law.

I think I'm going to make this a semi-regular practice. Heck, with a little more restraint on word length, it's almost Tweeting.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that my failure to use Facebook and Twitter has handicapped me in getting an audience. Or it may be an additional issue. I may be a blogosaur!